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Richard W. Gieseke

Person Name: Richard Gieseke Topics: Year B Epiphany 7; Year B Epiphany 9 Composer of "KENTRIDGE" in The New Century Hymnal

Keith Stent

Topics: Year A Epiphany 4; Year C Epiphany 2 Arranger of "[You made the heavens]" in Complete Anglican Hymns Old and New

Barbara Bullock-Tiffany

Topics: Epiphany Arranger of "YESU, YESU AMEFUFUKA" in Set Free

Ronald Johnson

b. 1913 Person Name: Ronald Johnson, 1913- Topics: Epiphany Translator (refrain) of "God, your glory we have seen in your Son" in Together in Song

I. Dorrum

Person Name: Ingebret Dorrum, 1877-1952 Topics: Epiphany Translator of "O How Beautiful the Sky" in Ambassador Hymnal

b. 1940 Topics: Christian Year Christmas / Epiphany Author of "En celebración del nacimiento del niño Jesús" in Mil Voces para Celebrar Joel is the grandson of sharecropper farmers who came to the U. S. at the turn of the century. He was born in Seguin, TX, to Guadalupe and Dora Martinez. He graduated from the University of Texas at El Paso with a B.A. in history. While in El Paso, he met Raquel Mora, a Methodist pastor's daughter. They married on June 9, 1961, and Joel enrolled in Perkins School of Theology in the fall of 1961. Ordained deacon and elder by Bishop Paul E. Martin, Joel held membership in the Rio Grande Conference until his election to the episcopacy in 1992. Pastoral appointments were in Dallas, San Antonio and El Paso. He served as Director of Planning and Development at Newark Houchen Center in El Paso and later, Executive Secretary, Office of Ethnic and Language Ministries, National Division, GBGM. Joel served as district superintendent in the Rio Grande Conference and as President of the Greater Dallas Community of Churches. He was a delegate to the Seventh Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Canberra, Australia, 1991. From early exposure to the plight of farm workers, and in student ministry to migrant workers, Joel learned to appreciate the urgent need for poor people to organize in order to participate more equitably in society. He worked with Cesar Chavez during the 1970's, worked to establish the first federally funded health clinic for the poor in El Paso, was a founding member of the National Hispanic Caucus in the UMC in 1970, and supported the organizing of poor fishermen on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico in the late 1970's. Joel worked on the initial proposals to the 1976 General Conference for a Missional Priority on the Ethnic Minority Local Church. He chaired the National Missional Priority Coordinating Committee in 1984-88. He chaired the National Plan for Hispanic Ministries National Committee (1992-2000). He served as bishop in Nebraska for eight years and returned to serve as resident bishop of the San Antonio Episcopal Area from 2000–2008. He chaired the National Plan for Hispanic Ministry of the United Methodist Church from 1992–2000. He served as President of the General Board of Global Ministries for two quadrennia, 2000–2008. Since retiring in 2008, he organized and directs the Oral History Project on Hispanic/Latino United Methodism which is an affiliate of the General Commission on Archives and History of the United Methodist Church, He serves on the Board of Trustees of Lydia Patterson Institute, The Hispanic Cultural Center in San Antonio, the National Board of the Industrial Areas Foundation, and the Advisory Committee of Encounter with Christ, a Permanent Fund for mission in Latin America and the Caribbean. In retirement, he served as Interim General Secretary of the General Board of Global Ministries from September, 2009 – March, 2010. A graduate of Perkins School of Theology, SMU, he received the Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995, and in 1996 Nebraska Wesleyan University awarded him an honorary Doctor of Divinity Degree. He and his spouse Raquel Mora Martínez are co-authors/editors of Fiesta Cristiana: Resources for Worship, published by Abingdon Press in 2003. They are currently working on a Research and Publishing Project to develop liturgical and historical resources for the Church. FVS - from Bishop Joel Martinez - The United Methodist Church

Wu-tung Huang

b. 1909 Topics: Jesus Christ Epiphany, Witness, Proclamation Author of "Lamentation of the Wanderer" in Hymns from the Four Winds

Rudolfo Ascencio

Topics: Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany Author (attributed to) of "Yo Soy la Luz del Mundo (I Am the World's True Light)" in Halle Halle

F. J. Burmeister

1633 - 1672 Topics: The Church Year Epiphany; The Church Year Epiphany Author of "O blessed Babe divine" in The Lutheran Hymnary Burmeister, Franz Joachim, was a native of Lüneburg. He was ordained at Cello, May 4, 1670, and instituted as diaconus of St. Michael's Church, Luneburg, July 10, 1670. This post he held till his death at Luneburg, April 21, 1672. Ho was a friend of Rist, who crowned him as a poet in 1659, and in 1660 received him into his order of Elbe Swans. (Koch, iii. 448-450: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, iii. 628; manuscript from Seminarlehrer Bode, Lüneburg.) His hymns were mostly contributed to the musical works of J. R. Ahle of Muhlhausen, 14 being set to music and published by Ahle in 1662, at Muhlhausen, as Neue yeistliche auff diehohen Festtage durchs gantze Jahr gerichtete Andachten. Those translations into English are:— i. Du keusohe Seele du. [Visitation to Elizabeth.] First published 1662 as above, No. 13 in 6 stanzas of 6 lines, entitled on the "Festival of Mary's Visitation. On her visitation journey." As the hymn is very rare, the first and last stanzas are here quoted from a copy kindly sent from Muhlhausen:— i. Du keusche Seele du, Der Weiber Licht und Sonne, Und deines Joseph's Wonne Genet nach Elisabethen zu, Deinen Glaubcn dort zu starken An des Allerhochsten Werken. vi. Die Welt ist soldi ein Ort, Darin wir Gastfrist pflegen; Bald muss mein Leib sichlegen, Dann geht der Geist von hinnen fort, Jesus woll' im Tod' und Leben Mir sich zum Gefahrten geben. The only translation in common use is:— Thou virgin, soul! 0 thou. By Miss Winkworth in her Chorale Book for England, 1863, No. 82. ii. Was soil ioh, liebstes Kind. [Epiphany.] First published, 1662, as above, No. 4, in 4 stanzas of 4 lines, entitled "On the Festival of the Holy Three Kings." In the Berlin Geistliche Liedersegen, edition 1863, No. 212. Translated as:— 0 Blessed Babe divine. A good and full translation by Dr. Kennedy as No. 194, in his Hymnologia Christiana, 1863. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] -- John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Rudolf Lagi

1823 - 1868 Person Name: Rudolf Teodor Lagi, 1823-1868 Topics: Epiphany Composer of "EN STJÄRNA GICK PÅ HIMLEN FRAM" in Hymnal and Order of Service